The possibilties in 1970

It was fascinating reading the technological thoughts of Gene Youngblood written down 38 years ago. I was interested in the "Videosphere" section. He talked about television being an extension of the collective human mind.

It is interesting how time works. He thought video phones would be the hit these days. Instead, we have phones that take videos and Youtube. Similar but different.

It seems that although we would love to have live video of who we are talking to, the technological leap is just too much. We are content recording content to be viewed later. We seem more obsessed with adding to the infinite database that is the internet as opposed to finite conversations.

I would agree that the T.V. became our videosphere. But now we have the internet, our information sphere where anything is possible.